Taking Palin seriously
Christopher Orr of TNR gets it. [ADDENDUM: Heh.]
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Three ancient tales of unwed pregnancies
I grew up in an era in which abortion was both difficult to obtain and physically dangerous. Today’s commonplace alternative of raising the child as an unwed single mother was socially unacceptable in the extreme. Effective birth control was nowhere … Continue reading →
Democrats: beware the backlash to Palinsanity
I’ve been doing some reading on the blog TalkLeft, which seems to have a large percentage of liberal Democrat commenters (mostly female?) who supported Clinton for the Democratic nomination. At this point they’re not overly enchanted with Obama, but most … Continue reading →
Vetting Palin
The WaPo takes on the rumor that Palin was insufficiently vetted, and appears to demolish it. My perception is that McCain was impressed from the first by Palin and was especially taken with her maverick, reformer quality, which he sensed … Continue reading →
And here’s the latest in pretzel-like contortions on the subject…
Found in the comments section of Michele Catalano’s PJ article on the Palin baby brouhaha (links don’t seem to work, but the time stamp is 1:06 PM and it was written by “4Heavenssake”): The first baby was probably a C-section … Continue reading →
The Palin fake-pregnancy rumors: the latest in a long line of campaign garbage
I think Palin’s nomination has caused much of the Left to flip its collective wig, or what’s left of it (puns intended). The rumors about Palin’s baby—that it really was conceived by her 16-year-old daughter and that Palin faked her … Continue reading →
Palin: a less-wordy Obama for the Right?
The blogs and airwaves are alive with Democrats looking down on Sarah Palin. She’s inexperienced. She’s just a pretty face. She was chosen merely for her gender and her “Movie of the Week” life story. Sound familiar? Just change the … Continue reading →
The campaign chess game
I’ve thought about this question myself: does Palin’s VP candidacy change Hillary’s calculus for 2012? I think it does. As Ms. Althouse says, it presents her with a conundrum: whose election would be best for Hillary? The way this campain … Continue reading →
Palin: playing the inexperience card is a loser for the Democrats
It would be laughable if it weren’t so serious. The Democrats and the Obama campaign are accusing Sarah Palin of being too inexperienced to be Vice-President. This would be an excellent plan of attack—after all, she is relatively inexperienced for … Continue reading →
Dissing Palin’s small-town mayoral experience…
…doesn’t strike me as the smartest move on the part of the Obama campaign. First of all, that’s more executive experience than Obama has ever had. Second of all, it’s been superceded by the fact that she also has some … Continue reading →
McCain/Palin and Biden: walking the walk
It occurs to me that if the McCain/Palin ticket were to win, both the President and Vice-President would have sons who would either be presently serving or have served in Iraq. And the same is true of prospective VP Biden.
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Palin’s nomination has kept me grinning ever since I heard of it.
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